[GSBN] Fwd: Project - Mini Family Home

Tue Feb 26 08:11:21 UTC 2013

Thanks so much Lars and others,

There are some really great things happening in the tiny house world.
Unfortunately some of it seems to be more interested in the smallest
possible footprint. We are currently building a 28sq meter garden shed and
guest house, and we are about to finish a 120sq meter house that can sleep
up to 21. A friend is building a tiny house at our shop and will hopefully
teach a course in it next year as well. I'm loving fitting more functions
into less space but I've shied away from the tiny houses until now because
I hadn't found a wall and roof system that I wanted to go into production
with. But I think I've got something worth trying in a light frame wall
with spray in lightweight structural insulation (mostly straw and rice
hulls). Has anyone tried the compressed straw panels (like Stramit) for
exterior walls? does anyone believe the R value of compressed straw as
published?. Has anyone tried anything similar? Has anyone tried driving
natural finishes down a dirt road with any success?

Feel free to message me privately and take this conversation away from
GSBN, I can see that this might be a stretch for this list. But I think
that finding better ways to use less stuff in less space helps promote
thick walled building systems when space is limited.

Still sad to have missed most of you in Colorado,

Tim

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Frank & Ingrid <strawbales at bigpond.com>wrote:

>   Hello everyone,
>
> we have a lovely example of a tiny strawbale cottage, 24 square metres
> big(small), a family of 4 lives in it – happily. Strawbale walls and first
> coat of render were done in a working bee with us and then the lady owners
> finished it. The blog http://pearlandelspeth.blogspot.com.au/search/label/strawbale
> building<http://pearlandelspeth.blogspot.com.au/search/label/strawbale%20building>tells their story and has lots of photos.
>
> And we build a 18 square metres plus loft studio in St Georges Basin,
> strawbale envelope with clay render, it’s on our website in the projects
> pages.
>
> Best wishes, Frank & Ingrid
>
> Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow, Strawbale Construction
> Ph: +61 (0) 2 44435282 Mobile: +61 (0) 408415806
> strawbales at bigpond.com
> www.strawtec.com.au
>
>  *From:* Lars Keller <larskeller at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, February 15, 2013 9:47 AM
> *To:* Global Straw Building Network (private, with public archives)<GSBN at SustainableSources.com>
> *Cc:* Thomas Birk Lynnerup <tbl at cool.dk>
> *Subject:* [GSBN] Fwd: Project - Mini Family Home
>
>  My neighbour Thomas, Friland, Denmark, is working tinkering with an idea
> I would think a lot on this list has thought about, or know someone hos
> done so.
> Please forward as you like.
> Lars
>
> From: Thomas Birk Lynnerup <thomaslynnerup at gmail.com>
> Date: 12 February 2013 18:13
> Subject: Project - Mini Family Home
>
> I'm sending you this email, because I'm trying to find out if there exists
> "Tiny Family Houses". Something like a 3 bedroom house, with bathroom,
> kitchen and living room. If you know about anything like this, please
> contact me.
>
> Lots of people in the US are building tiny houses (for 1 or 2 people).
> I'm thinking, if you can build a tiny house for 1 or 2 people, only 9m2
> big, then it must be possible to build a Mini Family home at 36m2 (maybe a
> little bigger).
> Tjeck out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXtMpQk9Iyw
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1fFConfF-Q
>
> The School of architecture in Aarhus, Denmark, will make a project out of
> my idea. We want to make a sustainable, space efficient and affordable
> family house.
>
> You can tjeck out these youtube videos if you like.
>
> Portable, off grid mini home:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOAPe0VoK3U
>
>
> French multifunctional funiture :
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBYS3ZsC-cY&feature=player_embedded
>
>
> Multifunctional funiture :
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBiaFcsuGcM
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tv9dmBOCwA
>
>
> IKEA
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQjBrt9LriY
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTN8EwVp7aA
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMhCjcQQ9H4
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiIQDI_3ak0
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU-Qg8kQpQM
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIqBzmfkINk
>
> Thanks
> Thomas
>
>
>
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